St Josephs Collegiate Institute - Star Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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The Star Night Dancers gather at the lnandstand, Guests at the Star Night Dance at Kleinhans Music Hall. The high spot of the early Spring social season was, of course, the Senior Promenade, the annual event of the school year which manages to attract almost the entire student body. The Mary Seaton Room, so popu' lar with the St. .Ioe's set, was again the scene of this dance which was strictly formal as usual. Dick Lecksell and his orchestra furnished the music as the couples promenaded through the hall in an intricate pattern of twos, fours, eights and twelves. This marked the last large dance before the arrival of Lent. The Annual Sports Night Dinner, begun last year and carried on successfully once more this year, was given at Hotel Statler on February 27th. The magic of Jim Thorpe,s name was great enough to attract a capacity crowd to the Statler for this evening which was another given over to honoring our undefeated foot- ball team. Mr. Thrope's talents as a speaker are commensurate with his abilities as an athlete and his audience sat enthralled as he spoke of the world of sports with which he is so familiar. Another St. -Ioe's annual , the Shamrock Club Banquet was held at Hotel Markeen on March 16th. The banquet was again managed hy the founder of this Celtic organization, Mr. john Barden, with the as- sistance of Myron Luthringer and Francis Cronin. Attesting to the tremendous popularity of this organization whose program also includes a wrestling match and a basketball game for the members. the attendance at this third gathering was the largest yet recorded. For the Seniors, the final dance of the year, The Senior Dinner Dance, which is a closed affair for the graduating class only, was held in May following the Retreat which is given at St. Bonaventure,s College.

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an 6.4 4 X r 7 ... an . .. 5, , Q if 1, t eal'a': M . ' and IVi1ster54::es H'Ck9Y, Come-rford, Diebold Lich The Ermylfi W . . tenthaI. Pettie, Borowiak einfurtner, Sauter, Lurhringer K S , err, Owns M. i lkuszewskj SIIGIIIL ACTIVITIES As an often weIcome relief from the routine of the classroom, St. joseph's CoIIegiate Institute provided the student hody and, on occasion, the faculty with some extra curricular amusements which were designed to prove amusing and diverting to aII. The gigantic task of raising money in the interests of a new school did, quite naturaIIy, cause severaI of the usuaI social events to he canceIIed or at Ieast postponed untiI the second semester while the BuiIding Fund Cam ai n was bein carried on. For the first time in man ears, the Dramatic Societ' did not resent its an- P g g Y I I P nuaI Ia on Thanks ivinv Eve hut the disa ointment at fore oin this eneraII aIa event was for otten P Y g 5 g g g Y g g with the prospect of a new huiiding. The eve of Thanksgiving, though Iacking the pIay, was still utiIized to the hest advantage for the Foot- haII Dance. This festive event was the first of severaI to fete our unconquered pigskin squad and an unusuaIIv Iarge crowd attended the dance held in the newIy redecorated Knights of Columhus Auditorium. This dance. now to be an annual affair, was run hy the Senior CIass in pIace of the customary FaII Skating Party. Despite the New Years' Eve-in-Times Square atmosphere around the checIcroom, the guests managed to Iaunch our social season on its way. The music was supphed, in the modern manner, hy Art Schaefiefs Rlfkflllll-ATIS. Not to he outdone during the festive hoIidav season, St. Josephs CoIIegiate Institute sponsored The Star Night Dance on the night of Decemher 29th for the henefit of the yearhook. In the shadow of a gigantic Christmas tree overIooIcing the hedecked Mary Seaton Room of KIeinhans Music I-IaII, over two hundred coupIes danced to the music of Tone CarnevaIe's orchestra. This event. coming as it did at the cIimax of the YuIetide period, was among the more coIorfuI and gIittering sponsored hy the school during this active year. 93

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Scenes of the Senior Prom at Kleinhans Nlusic Hall. These two events hring to the Senior Class the close of its high school career and they will he long rememhered as some of the pleasantest memories which the Class of 1946 will carry with it. One of the most useful organizations in the school is the Parent-Teachers Association which holds regular meetings on the second Friday of each month. This season. however. the opening meeting of the school vear was held on january Ilth hecause of the taxing demands made upon the time of hoth parents and teachers during the busy months of the Building Fund Drive. Officers elected at that time were: Mr. Edward Schwendler, Presidentg Mr. james O'Brien. First Vice-Presidentg Mrs. Nicholas Schmitt, Second Vice-Presi- dentg and Mrs. Donald Gorey, Third Vice-President. The posts of Secretary and Treasurer were received hx' Mr. C. Ashton McNeil and Mrs, Norman Graesser. The P-T,A. also indulged in its lighter side as, at the Fehru- ary meeting, the parents sponsored an amusing and original Valentine Party in the school gymnasium. An evening of hilarity resulted from the clever games which were planned for this party and both facultv and parents enjoyed the departure from the more serious prohlems with which this organization is concerned. At several other of these meetings. the Glee Cluh and Orchestra performed for the guests. The Football Dance at the Knights of Columhus Auditorium,